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Apple's original software construction kit: HyperCard turns twenty-five years old today

by Kelly Guimont (Aug 11th, 2012)

Twenty-five years ago today, HyperCard was released at Macworld Expo Boston. Apple's software construction kit for the rest of us began shipping on every new Mac as of August 11, 1987; you could also buy it for $49. It required 1 MB of memory (yes, one megabyte) and a pair of 800K floppy ...

Daily Update for May 31, 2012

by Steven Sande (May 31st, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Ars looks at 25 years of HyperCard

by Steven Sande (May 31st, 2012)

Ars Technica has a wonderful writeup today about Apple's HyperCard, which would soon be celebrating its 25th birthday if it was still around. HyperCard was a wonderful tool; it provided a way for non-programmers to link "cards" of information with simple scripts and a variety of common Mac user ...

Ultra-rare Apple WALT up for grabs on eBay

by Steven Sande (Mar 11th, 2012)

TUAW readers who are into collecting Apple devices are going to love this eBay find: a prototype of an unreleased product from 1993. The Apple WALT (Wizzy Active Lifestyle Telephone) was introduced at Macworld Boston in '93, the same venue where the ill-fated Newton MessagePad first went on sale. ...

Daily iPad App: Demibooks Composer

by Steven Sande (Sep 22nd, 2011)

One of the great Apple products many years ago was HyperCard, which allowed non-programmers to easily build interactive "stacks" with many linked pages (cards). Now a new iPad app, Demibooks Composer (free) brings a similar capability of easy creation to anyone who would like to publish an ...

Bill Atkinson part of the Google+ team (Updated: Apparently not)

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jul 21st, 2011)

Update: The San Jose Mercury News got this one wrong and the info has been redacted in their original story. While Mr. Atkinson is a user, he's not a part of Google's team. Thanks to everyone who brought this to our attention and Mike Swift for the correction. Bill Atkinson, the developer ...

TidBITS celebrates 20 years of online publishing excellence

by Steven Sande (Apr 21st, 2010)

Although the Apple blogging community is fairly tight-knit, we usually don't go out of our way to laud our competitors. This week, however, we're making an exception. Back in 1990, Adam and Tonya Engst jump-started the online publishing world with TidBITS. Initially, TidBITS was distributed as a ...

revMobile: write iPhone and iPad apps without knowing Objective C

by Steven Sande (Mar 5th, 2010)

One of the biggest barriers to entry for people who want to develop their own iPhone apps is the requirement to actually know how to program in Objective C. Runtime Revolution (AKA RunRev) has been developing and marketing a HyperCard-like development environment since 1997. To quote the company's ...

Show floor video: Tilestack aims to bring HyperCard stacks into the future

by Michael Rose (Jan 18th, 2008)

Sometimes the most interesting ideas are ones that fall out of favor and come back again years later. Witness Tilestack, a technology preview on the floor at Macworld that allows importing and instant web-enabling of vintage HyperCard stacks, as well as advanced interactive web applications with ...

Vintage Apple books and software

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Aug 21st, 2007)

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/apple/Vintage_Apple_Software_and_Books_Gallery'; Mad props to my parents for keeping our basement an Apple museum! Aside from a pristine Apple //c (with monochrome monitor), vintage Apple ][ ,and Mac SE/30 (with a color monitor card) they kept most if not all of our Mac ...

Hypercard's history

by Mike Schramm (Jul 24th, 2007)

SiliconUser takes a short look at ye olde Hypercard technology, Apple's precursor to the concepts that eventually became HTML and the World Wide Web. The project was originally created in 1985 as an easier way to create programs on the Macintosh-- it consisted of a "cards and stacks" metaphor, as in ...

Making music with Hypercard

by Dave Caolo (Jul 16th, 2007)

This post combines two things we love: inventive geeks and vintage Macs. Peter Jungers and Josh Burker worked together to write several HyperCard stacks to compose their music, which you can listen to here. That's a trio of 68K Macs you're listening to (though it reminds me of a scene from ...

Apple leads PC World's 50 Best Tech Products of All Time

by Mat Lu (Apr 2nd, 2007)

Everybody likes lists and rankings; there's just something that fascinates people about them, and they're always good for an argument or, as the case may be, selling magazines. Squarely in this latter camp is PC World's list of the Best 50 Tech Products of All Time, which editor Harry McCracken ...

Rig of the Day: HyperCard and model trains

by Dave Caolo (Apr 28th, 2006)

We like this one a lot. Flickr user rudolf_mittelmann has posted a nice shot of his PowerBook Duo 280c running a custom-built HyperCard stack that controls the train you see zipping past. Classic Macs running classic software to complete atypical tasks make us happy. "PowerBook Duo 280c" ...

A blogging tool in Hypercard?!

by Scott McNulty (Mar 24th, 2006)

People loved Hypercard. People still love Hypercard. Tantek has built a blogging tool using Hypercard (that's him in the picture showing it off to some folks). Sadly there isn't too much info about this marvel on Tantek's website, but just knowing it exists makes me happy. [via vedana.net] ...